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Woman charged with attempted statutory rape
Comments 0 | Recommend 0July 08, 2008 11:28 AM
WARRENSBURG — A Knob Noster woman has been charged with trying to lure a police officer posing as a teenage boy to have sex.
Melissa Anne Whisenhunt, 39, was scheduled to appear in Johnson County Circuit Court at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday to be arraigned on a charge of attempted statutory rape in the second degree.
A Johnson County grand jury indicted her on June 27, and she was arrested and freed on a $5,000 bond.
Whisenhunt “attempted to have sexual intercourse with Steven L. Edwards, a police officer portraying himself to be a child” younger than 17, the indictment alleges.
Edwards is a deputy with the Johnson County Sheriff’s Department.
If convicted, Whisenhunt could be sentenced to four years in prison and ordered to pay a fine of $5,000.
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